Giovanni Falcone was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo,Sicily,he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career,culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987,on 23 May 1992,Falcone was assassinated by the Corleonesi Mafia in the Capaci bombing,on the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci.
Antonio Di Pietro is an Italian politician,lawyer and magistrate. He was a minister in government of Romano Prodi,a Senator,and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a prosecutor in the Mani Pulite corruption trials in the early 1990s.
Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo,Sicily,he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career,culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987,on 19 July 1992,Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio,near his mother's house in Palermo.
Rocco Chinnici was a noted Italian anti-Mafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia.
Matteo Messina Denaro,also known as Diabolik,is a Sicilian Mafia boss. He got his nickname from the Italian comic book character of the same name. He is considered to be one of the new leaders of Cosa Nostra after the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006,and the arrest of Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. Messina Denaro became known nationally on 12 April 2001 when the magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline:Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia. He has been a fugitive on the most wanted list since 1993 and according to Forbes magazine he is among the ten most wanted criminals in the world. With the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017,Messina Denaro is seen as the unchallenged boss of all bosses within the Mafia.
Capo dei capi or capo di tutti i capi or Godfather are terms used mainly by the media,public,fiction writers and law enforcement community to indicate a supremely powerful crime boss in the Sicilian or American Mafia who holds great influence over the whole organization. The term was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission in 1950.
Salvatore Lo Piccolo,also known as "the Baron",is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo,Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the capomandamento of the San Lorenzo district in the early 1990s,replacing Salvatore Biondino,who was sent to prison. Lo Piccolo was a fugitive since 1983 and had been running his Mafia affairs in hiding. With the capture of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006,Lo Piccolo had been cementing his power and rise to the top of the Palermo Mafia until his own arrest on 5 November 2007. It is believed that his family spread across Europe due to rising tensions,settling in England,Portugal,and southern Spain.
Antonino "Nino" Giuffrè is an Italian mafioso from Caccamo in the Province of Palermo,Sicily. He became one of the most important Mafia turncoats after his arrest in April 2002.
The Sicilian Mafia Commission,known as Commissione or Cupola,is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of,and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra. It is composed of representatives of a mandamento that are called capo mandamento or rappresentante. The Commission is not a central government of the Mafia,but a representative mechanism for consultation of independent Mafia families who decide by consensus. "Contrary to the wide-spread image presented by the media,these superordinate bodies of coordination cannot be compared with the executive boards of major legal firms. Their power is intentionally limited [and] it would be entirely wrong to see in the Cosa Nostra a centrally managed,internationally active Mafia holding company," according to criminologist Letizia Paoli.
Mauro De Mauro was an Italian investigative journalist. Originally a supporter of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime,De Mauro eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He disappeared in September 1970 and his body has never been found. The disappearance and probable death of the "inconvenient journalist" –as he became known as a result of his investigative reporting –remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in modern Italian history.
Giovanni "Gianni" Nicchi is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Despite his young age –he is nicknamed 'u picciutteddu –he is considered to be one of the leading mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 2006,until his arrest on 5 December 2009.
Pietro Tagliavia is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Despite his young age,he is considered to be one of the upcoming leading Mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo.
Carlo Palermo is an Italian lawyer and investigative magistrate. He was an assistant prosecutor in Trento from 1975 to 1984 and in Trapani till 1989. Afterwards he resigned from the judiciary.
Telejato is an independent television station based in the town of Partinico,in Sicily,Italy,broadcasting from 1989. It became widely known for its anti-Mafia reporting and for managing by Pino Maniaci.
Francesca Laura Morvillo was an Italian magistrate,wife of Giovanni Falcone and victim of the Sicilian Mafia.
The via D'Amelio bombing was a terrorist attack by the Sicilian Mafia,which took place in Palermo,Sicily,Italy,on 19 July 1992. It killed Paolo Borsellino,the anti-mafia Italian magistrate,and five members of his police escort:Agostino Catalano,Emanuela Loi,Vincenzo Li Muli,Walter Eddie Cosina,and Claudio Traina.
Civil Revolution was a left-wing coalition of political parties in Italy.
Pietro Grasso,also known as Piero Grasso,is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018.
The Direzione Investigativa Antimafia,also known as DIA,is an Italian multi-force investigation body under the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior. Its main task is the fight against the mafia-related organized crime in Italy.
